Greaveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English greve, from 古期英語 grǣfe, grǣfa (“bush, bramble, grove, thicket, copse, brush-wood (for burning), fuel”), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grōbō (“ditch, hole”).

Cognate with Scots greve, greave (“grove”). Compare also Proto-Germanic *grainiz (“twig”), of unknown origin, whence Old Norse grein (“branch, bough”). Closely related to 古期英語 grāf, grāfa (“grove”). See grove.

名詞

greave (複数形 greaves)

1. (obsolete) A bush; a tree; a grove.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     she fled into that covert greave

2. (obsolete) A bough; a branch.

語源 2

From Middle English greve, greyve, from 古期英語 grǣfa, grēfa (“pit, cave, hole, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grēbō, an ablaut variant of to *grōbō (“pit, ditch”) (whence doublet of groove) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with North Frisian groop (“pit, sewer, gutter”), Dutch groef (“pit, hole, gutter”), German Grube (“pit, hole”), Icelandic gröf (“pit, grave”). Also related to grave.

名詞

greave (複数形 greaves)

1. (obsolete) A ditch or trench.

語源 3

From Middle English greve, grayve, from Old French greve (“shin”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Egyptian Arabic جورب‎ (“stocking, leg cover”).^[1] Watkins suggests a connection with greve (“part in the hair”), due to the resemblance of the medial ridge to a part in the hair, from graver (“to part (the hair); engrave”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *graban (“to engrave”);^[2] if so, related to Etymology 2 above.

名詞

greave (複数形 greaves)

1. A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:greave.

別の表記

• greeve

同意語

• cnemid

派生語

• greaved

語源 4

From greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”).

動詞

greave (三人称単数 現在形 greaves, 現在分詞 greaving, 過去形および過去分詞形 greaved)

1. (nautical, transitive) To clean (a ship's bottom); to grave.

参考

• greaves (“residue left after animal fat has been rendered”)

参照

アナグラム

• regave